Which teasers/trailers are you tired of seeing before a movie?

I just cringe whenever that stupid teaser for The Son of The Mask comes on. So obviously CGI and just plain stupid. Haven't they learned anything from Dumb and Dumberer? No Jim Carrey then nobody's gonna watch it!

Same can be said for the Torque trailer. Just another Fast and The Furiuos with bikes. Can't they make stunts with real people and real bikes anymore? Another trailer that's filled with awful and obvious CGI.

Supporter

The one that starts with, "My name is blah-blah and I work as a stuntman. Some of us specialize in turning over cars or flipping them, etc., etc. We really work hard and we really want you paying theatre going Mo-fo's to stop pirating films. We know you have paid to see the movie but we are sure that somehow you are stealing it from under our noses. If you don't stop pirating films I am going to lose my job. We know that work-in-progress prints are showing up on the internet and we know that you, the theatre audience, is responsible. We don't have clue how you are responsible but, damnit, somehow its all your fault. So please stop doing whatever it is you are doing...you....you...PIRATES!!"

"You bring a horse for me?""Looks like......looks like we're shy of one horse.""No.......You brought two too many."

I agree, the piracy trailer and the entire campaign is getting rather annoying. I feel as if they make me feel like a villain and crook everytime I sit down to watch a film. I also hate that trailer for The Mask II...I mean it's the what the !@$% moment of 2004.

AJG

"It's been my lifelong ambition to be a movie usher, and I have failed, as far as I am concerned" - Bob Dylan

The Mask trailer is horrible! It's caused very audible groans at every screening I've seen it play at.

I'm pretty sick of The Butterfly Effect trailer. Ashton Kutcher to me causes the same reaction that many people have to Keanu Reeves - I literally start laughing just by looking at him, and when he opens his mouth to speak, I laugh even harder. Especially the line in the trailer, "Every time I go back in time to help someone, everything just goes wrong!" That said, while it makes me laugh, that doesn't mean I necessarily enjoy seeing it at every single movie I go to, and I'm very tired of it now.

Supporter

Amen! I'm glad the movie is opening this weekend so I don't have to see the trailer again. I think they played it in front of EVERY film I've seen in the past two months, which means I've seen it 15-20 times.

Three truths about movies, as noted by Roger Ebert:

* It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
* No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough.
* No good movie is depressing, all bad movies are depressing.

Granted he should be worried about his job, but not for the reasons he's stating. Computer generated special effects are replacing the stuntman more and more every day. Pretty soon, Hollywood won't even need him anymore.

As for bad trailers, I pretty much hate all the trailers narrated by the same two or three deep-voiced guys. I prefer trailers that are either narrated by the filmmaker (Hitchcock was a master at this), or not narrated at all except possibly a few segments of dialog from the main actors (the Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions teaser trailer is a good example).

The worst trailer I've ever seen was for the French version of "Return to the Blue Lagoon". The audience was laughing out loud and was even applauding sarcastically at the end of it!

One trailer I have been seeing over and over again but haven't really gotten sick of is The Butterfly Effect. It's always shown before ROTK. It would be twice the trailer without Mr. Voice, but its intriguing nonetheless.

One trailer I was really sick of at the time was the trailer for Matrix Revolutions that was attached to the end of Reloaded. A cinema here used it as their only trailer for Revolutions. I would go to the movies the week before Revolutions opened, when they had the really cool trailer with the Deus Ex Machina, and they were still playing this thing I now had on DVD. That really drove me crazy.